{"id":44367,"date":"2023-03-06T13:01:59","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T18:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=44367"},"modified":"2023-03-06T13:01:59","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T18:01:59","slug":"joint-statement-uaw-ig-metall-volkswagens-group-world-group-works-council-regarding-vws-new-plant-south-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=44367","title":{"rendered":"Joint Statement from UAW, IG Metall and Volkswagen\u2019s Group and World Group Works Council regarding VW\u2019s new plant in South Carolina | UAW"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mdl-wrap mdl-shadow--2dp\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/uaw.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/UAW-Wheel-Logo-Yellow-on-Blue.png\" class=\"standard-featured wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uaw.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/UAW-Wheel-Logo-Yellow-on-Blue.png 1024w, https:\/\/uaw.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/UAW-Wheel-Logo-Yellow-on-Blue-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/uaw.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/UAW-Wheel-Logo-Yellow-on-Blue-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/uaw.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/UAW-Wheel-Logo-Yellow-on-Blue-850x478.png 850w, https:\/\/uaw.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/UAW-Wheel-Logo-Yellow-on-Blue-284x160.png 284w, https:\/\/uaw.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/UAW-Wheel-Logo-Yellow-on-Blue-640x360.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"mdl-post-content\">\n<p>IG Metall, the UAW and Volkswagen\u2019s Group and World Group Works Council welcome the construction of a new plant in South Carolina, where electrified vehicles will be manufactured under the traditional US brand Scout Motors. This investment will create thousands of new manufacturing jobs and will further drive the transformation towards electromobility.<\/p>\n<p>We also welcome the fact that the Board of Management and the Supervisory Board have clearly stated that Volkswagen and Scout will respect employees and trade union rights at the new site. This means that future employees will have the right to decide on union representation without intimidation or influence.<\/p>\n<p>IG Metall, the UAW and the Volkswagen Group and World Group Works Council will monitor the process in a constructive way.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<section id=\"suggest-content\" class=\"mdl-grid\">\n<p class=\"mdl-cell mdl-cell--12-col\">Other users read these articles next&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-card-wide mdl-cell mdl-cell--6-col mdl-cell--12-col-tablet mdl-card mdl-shadow--2dp\">\n<div class=\"mdl-card__supporting-text\">\n<h3 class=\"mdl-card__title-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uaw.org\/hurricane-irma-relief-effort-florida-house-capitol-hill\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Hurricane Irma relief effort at Florida House on Capitol Hill\">Hurricane Irma relief effort at Florida House on Capitol Hill<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-card-wide mdl-cell mdl-cell--6-col mdl-cell--12-col-tablet mdl-card mdl-shadow--2dp\">\n<div class=\"mdl-card__supporting-text\">\n<h3 class=\"mdl-card__title-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uaw.org\/uaw-local-1558-spirit-aerosystems-announce-increased-production\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"UAW Local 1558 and Spirit AeroSystems Announce Increased Production\">UAW Local 1558 and Spirit AeroSystems Announce Increased Production<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<aside class=\"sidebar\">\n<section class=\"widget sow-editor-3 widget_sow-editor\"\/>\n<section class=\"widget sow-button-2 widget_sow-button\"\/>\n<section class=\"widget sow-editor-5 widget_sow-editor\"\/>\n<section class=\"widget sow-post-carousel-2 widget_sow-post-carousel\"\/>\n<\/aside>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IG Metall, the UAW and Volkswagen\u2019s Group and World Group Works Council welcome the construction of a new plant in South Carolina, where electrified vehicles will be manufactured under the traditional US brand Scout Motors. This investment will create thousands of new manufacturing jobs and will further drive the transformation towards electromobility. We also welcome [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44368,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-workers-unions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/44368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}